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CommentResponse:SA-2
From SPARQL Working Group
DRAFT
Stephen,
Thank you for the comment.
The working group agrees that there are use case where such a function would be useful. The functions UUID(), which generates a URN UUID IRI, and StrUUID(), which generates the string format for a UUID, have been added to the SPARQL function library.
Andy
On behalf of SPARQL-WG
> One useful feature I would like to see in SPARQL is a string function > that returns a 128 bit UUID (as defined by [3]). This could be used > to construct IRIs [4] or string literals. In particular, this would > assist greatly in minting new resources in a query for entities that > may not otherwise lend themselves to a good naming scheme.